Around 28 refugees have died in the port in the last year – including six in the last seven weeks. Many lie here with families in countries like Eritrea and Sudan not knowing their loved ones never made it.

Those identified include Adam Joumoua Abdellah Abderahmane, 22, from Sudan, killed close to the Channel Tunnel on September 24 after reportedly being hit by a shuttle bus. His was the second body found in the area in less than a week.

Also buried is Saleh el Fadel, 23, also from Sudan, and Mousse Houmed, 17, from Eritrea – both found dead in the tunnel in July.

Most heartrending of all is a cross for a newborn girl, Samir Khalida, in a children’s graveyard. She died after her Eritrean mum fell from a truck, triggering a premature delivery.

And the latest victim, killed on October 16, was beyond recognition, torn to shreds after being hit by a tunnel train.

Soon the graveyard toll could include victims of violence. We found evidence that law and order here is teetering on collapse. Many in the Jungle, which has grown by 3,000 in the last three weeks, are now believed to be carrying knives and guns.

French authorities are so alarmed they have ordered police to patrol only the camp boundary and not go inside. Armed soldiers now guard the Channel Tunnel entrance.

Heartrending: The grave of baby Samir Khedija whose mother had a miscarriage during an attempt to travel from Calais to England (Image: Sunday Mirror)

But within the Jungle, abuse and depravity is growing. One refugee told of women forced into prostitution and raped by Middle East gangs.

He told the Sunday People: “At night, it is hell. So many times I have seen women forced by the gangs to have sex.

“A few days ago I saw them carry one into a tent, fighting and crying. She was raped by many men. The gang were charging the men money. I want to stop it, but they carry knives and guns.”

Outside the camp’s Eritrean church another refugee told us: “We all carry weapons to protect ourselves. I have a small knife, but others have machetes and even guns.

“At night, we hear gunfire. We should not have to live like this. I need to get to England. Then it will be better.”

This mammoth shanty town now has around 6,000 residents. Food tents have sprung up, shops and even a makeshift library.

Alarmed: French soldiers have been ordered not to enter the camp (Image: Sunday Mirror)

But for all the ingenuity, large parts of the camp are thick with mud and excrement. Rats scurry about. There is no heating or clean water. The threat of illness looms large.

Dr Lynne Jones, a child psychologist working in the camp, said: “In 20 years I’ve worked all around the world, including Kosovo, Iraq, Chad and Somalia – but never have I seen anything as awful as this.

“My government is doing nothing to help and I’m ashamed. The British Army and NATO need to build a registration centre here. We had one in Kosovo.”

But amid the squalor, there are moving stories too.

Iraqi Ali Almalki, 32, has been a legal UK resident since 2009 – but he has left his Liverpool home to live in the Jungle with wife Fatima, 26, and their boys Hassan, four, Mohammed, three, and one-year-old daughter Jorie.

Ali was handed a permit to live in the UK after working with the British Army in Iraq, acting as an interpreter at a camp. But he had to move alone, making trips back and forward to see Fatima.

He said: “A month ago, I heard my wife and children had left Iraq, but I didn’t know where they were. I travelled to Istanbul to look for them before finding them here. I cannot leave them.”

Danger of death: The entrance to the Eurotunnel at Frethun, Calais (Image: Sunday Mirror)

Barber Mohamad Mahmuodi Abdl Kadri, 25, is desperate to return to the UK after living and working in Manchester and London for five years.

He said: “I arrived hiding under a trailer. I was 15 and could stay because I was a child. I got jobs at a car wash and as a forklift driver. But when I went to renew my permit in 2009, the Government reviewed my status.

“I love England. It is a great country. I feel I can breathe there. What’s the difference between me and someone born in Europe?

“Britain has a population of 65million people. To take the 6,000 here would be nothing.”